TWWMABMTBH Chapter 35

Chapter 35: “Sucks” is an Understatement

Is this the legendary advertising?

The three of them were completely dumbfounded. Scrolling down, there were even more ads.

What “Midnight Little Wildcat,” what “Buy salted duck eggs and you’ll be my forever sugar daddy.” Anyway, there was nothing they couldn’t imagine that Rong Ziyan couldn’t write.

So, what can be analyzed from this WeChat Moments? The moral bottom line of sales?

The three looked at each other, ultimately unable to figure it out, not even quite understanding what Rong Ziyan had written.

After all, their lives were relatively simple, and they had never encountered a special profession like WeChat business.

So, what exactly is Rong Ziyan’s background?

When it was dinner time, they saw Rong Ziyan’s latest WeChat update: a picture of the three of them each holding a salted duck egg with the caption “Cheers to our eggs!” They were even more confused.

The earliest one to add Rong Ziyan on WeChat couldn’t resist messaging him, trying to gather intel.

“Senior, what’s that thing on your WeChat Moments…”

In less than a minute, they received a reply from Rong Ziyan, “Ah! I’m a WeChat merchant, doing a small business.”

“???” [Bewilderment value: 1500] No matter what, they never expected this answer. The boy was completely stunned.

Rong Ziyan’s chatterbox, however, was opened, “By the way, do you guys want any salted duck eggs?”

The three boys looked at each other, “What does this mean?”

The next second, Rong Ziyan very considerately sent them several videos. They were all about different ways to eat salted duck eggs.

It was mealtime, and such videos were simply irresistible. Especially hungry stomachs, which kept making sounds of craving.

So, five minutes later, the three boys inexplicably ordered thirty salted duck eggs each from Rong Ziyan. Because Rong Ziyan had them readily available and they lived next door, they could get their delivery soon after placing the order.

The delivery guy was that top student from the mechanical engineering department.

Faced with this senior who looked obviously more simple and honest, the three boys still couldn’t resist asking him, “Why did Senior Rong bring so many salted duck eggs when he came to participate in the show?”

The mechanical engineering student said, “Oh, he sells salted duck eggs. Everyone at our school orders from him.”

The three boys: “???”

The mechanical engineering student heavily promoted, “Hurry up and try them, they’re really delicious!”

Then he turned and left, heading towards Rong Ziyan’s room.

“Senior, are you guys studying together?”

The mechanical engineering student frowned, “Well, kind of.”

The three boys exchanged glances, feeling even more uneasy.

After returning to Rong Ziyan’s dorm room, the mechanical engineering student immediately changed into a happy expression.

“Come on, come on! Did you guys finish updating? Three-person lineup, let’s go!”

Rong Ziyan and the beautiful senior sister looked up together, “Let’s go!”

Next, a familiar “timi” sound came from the phone.

They were instantly matched into a Bronze three-person lineup. Whoever got to Gold first was a dog.

After all, as Rong Ziyan said, even last-minute preparation needed to know where to focus. There were only three days left before the competition, so it was better to let loose and be themselves.

Meanwhile, the competition group chat was equally lively. The main topic of their discussion today was Rong Ziyan and his team.

Unlike the fans outside, they had been participating in the show for a month, so they naturally understood that the production crew was not human in their daily operations.

From the moment Rong Ziyan and his team moved in, they understood the production crew’s implication: Rong Ziyan was not a gimmick, but a formidable opponent. Otherwise, if they were just going to be on for one episode, the production crew wouldn’t have arranged for them to stay in the dorms.

Precisely because of this, these top students from various universities were even more concerned about what kind of impact Rong Ziyan’s team would have on the current situation after joining.

“Does anyone have any classmates from the agricultural university? Do you know their background?” Someone took the lead in asking, and soon someone answered him.

“It’s useless even if you do. The previous wave of trending topics sent by fans has stirred up the tempers of those people at the agricultural university. Now, they’re all keeping their mouths shut, not giving us any chance.”

“What about their school forum?”

“Can’t get in. The agricultural university really has a forum built before the liberation! Without a student ID, you can’t even access the external network.”

“Then we can only wait until after the mock exam to see. I don’t know which team they’ll choose to join. Good luck to us!”

At this moment, someone suddenly remembered the “teen genius” team and tagged them, “You guys live next door, haven’t you discovered anything?”

After all, the teen genius team had someone who specialized in psychology.

However, they never expected that the answer they received would be, “Rong Ziyan is a WeChat merchant.”

“???”

“He even sold me 30 salted duck eggs at dinner!”

“…” The group chat was instantly silent.

And that boy, as if he had finally found an outlet, then added, “You would never guess it, they don’t seem to be reviewing for the upcoming mock exam, instead they formed a team to play games.”

“Honor of Kings, Bronze tier! They even lost five games in a row!” The three members of the teen genius team felt as if they were complete fools at this moment.

After adding Rong Ziyan on WeChat, they really didn’t discover anything, and they even spent money to buy Rong Ziyan’s salted duck eggs, becoming his customers. Because they were too frustrated, they were determined to find something against Rong Ziyan.

Just then, the boy who added Rong Ziyan first received a WeChat notification. Rong Ziyan had sent him gold coins in Honor of Kings!

So this guy went to play games?

Games are the best way to see a person’s character, so they quickly followed into Honor of Kings and found Rong Ziyan.

Honor of Kings has a spectating function. They clicked in and happily discovered that Rong Ziyan and his two teammates all seemed to be in the game, playing in a three-person lineup.

This was even better! The three of them could analyze together.

However, half an hour passed, and they watched helplessly as the three of them chased Cheng Yaojin in the jungle for three kilometers. Just when they were about to kill him, Rong Ziyan, controlling Xiang Yu, pushed Cheng Yaojin away again, helping him successfully escape. In the process, the enemy team successfully destroyed their base and won the game.

They couldn’t find any character analysis, the only thing on the screen was “sucks.”

“You probably can’t imagine it! They’ve been playing for two hours, and the three of them are still in Bronze Tier III.”

“…” The group chat was even more silent.

What kind of weird opponents did they encounter?

On Rong Ziyan’s end, he suddenly received a system notification: “Gained 10,000 bewilderment points.”

System: “Wow! This wave is so powerful!”

“They are indeed a group of excellent little lambs.” Rong Ziyan couldn’t help but laugh. His Xiang Yu’s skill misfired, pushing the enemy back to safety again, all four of his teammates missed all their skills.

The mechanical engineering student had already collapsed, grabbing Rong Ziyan’s arm and wailing, “Dad, I beg you, switch to Yao! Just ride on my head!”

Rong Ziyan: “Watch your words, we have a girl here! How can you just ride around like that?”

“…” The beautiful senior sister from the landscape architecture department wanted to slap Rong Ziyan to death. Now he knows that she’s a girl, but when he said she could uproot a big tree with her bare hands, why didn’t he think that she was a girl?

After being wiped out once again, the two of them simultaneously threw down their phones in anger. They refused to play in a three-person lineup with Rong Ziyan again and planned to go back to the dorms.

Rong Ziyan even tried to persuade them: “Don’t be upset, just be happy!”

The two of them said in unison: “Fuck, we’re not happy at all!”

The giant ship of their friendship was thus submerged, and the two of them didn’t even see each other for the next two days for fear of not being able to control their anger and choke each other to death.

But their ease and relaxation, seen in the eyes of other participating teams, had become unfathomable. The three boys who had tried to investigate Rong Ziyan first were so worried that they suffered from insomnia at night.

According to the competition schedule, even though they were the winners of the last round, they were not exempt from the challenge this time. As long as Rong Ziyan provoked them, they had to participate.

And compared to the current teams, they clearly looked the weakest.

That is to say, at the start of the competition, as long as Rong Ziyan’s team obtained the right to participate and chose their team, then it would be a do-or-die situation. But now, the other team could understand them through the previous episode replay, while they knew nothing about Rong Ziyan.

In such a tense atmosphere, the mock exam finally arrived.

The process of this variety show was much more stringent and complicated than usual. Because the participants were all top students, and it was a point-based battle, not every live recording could involve every team. Instead, a mock exam before the live recording would be used to select the top six teams in total points to participate.

Of course, for the sake of fairness, the mock exam would be taken online, with online invigilation. That is to say, during the exam process of every top student, the surveillance camera in each room would be open to the public. Any netizen could see their exam process through the surveillance feed. At the same time, these netizens could also view the content of their exam papers in real time through the official website.

In other words, even if you casually wrote an “A” on the paper, it would be immediately discovered by netizens. There was absolutely no possibility of cheating.

Therefore, every mock ranking exam was the most anticipated part for netizens.

There were five minutes left before the start of the exam, and the live stream on the official website was already crowded with people. Among these people, 70% had come for Rong Ziyan, wanting to see if he truly had the knowledge and skills to back himself up. And those students from the agricultural university who came to cheer on their school’s top student, were also staring intently at the screen, feeling nervous.

The clock struck the hour on time, and the theme of this exam appeared: a total of one hundred multiple choice questions, which had to be completed in ten minutes. This meant that each question had to be answered within six seconds, leaving no time for thinking, and requiring the answer to be written down immediately.

It was truly terrifying.

But what was even more terrifying was the theme of this exam: National Geography.

The students at the agricultural university instantly gasped, their minds buzzing. They thought to themselves, this was too unlucky! The three people from the agricultural university were one from landscape architecture, one from mechanical engineering, and one from veterinary medicine. None of them were related to this category!

The forum was instantly filled with wails.

“My God, this is really divine luck! The previous few times were all comprehensive questions, why is it National Geography this time?”

“Don’t worry yet, I think the beautiful senior sister from landscape architecture will be fine!”

“It’s no use even if she’s fine! What about Rong Ziyan?”

“Don’t even mention it, I’ve already predicted that the trending topics later will be reserved for them: agricultural university pretty boy, only in name.”

At this time, the head of the veterinary medicine department was also worried. He forced himself to remain calm and clicked on Rong Ziyan’s exam paper to watch him answer the questions. He was surprised to find that Rong Ziyan was answering extremely fast. According to the display, Rong Ziyan’s speed was even faster than those top students who specialized in geography and humanities.

“Is this fake? Did this kid just give up and start guessing randomly?” The department head asked his colleague in confusion.

“I don’t think so.” The female teacher frowned. Although she didn’t know much about geography, she knew that at least all the answers she knew from Rong Ziyan’s answered questions were correct.

So, what exactly was going on with Rong Ziyan?

Clearly, the netizens who were watching Rong Ziyan had the same thoughts as them.

At first, some people thought that Rong Ziyan was just putting on an act to attract attention. But then, they discovered that Rong Ziyan’s answers were almost identical to the ones that the top student of geography and humanities had chosen. Some of the answers were different, but when they checked them on Baidu, they were surprised to find that Rong Ziyan’s answers were correct.

“My God! Did he get the answers in advance?” Someone couldn’t help but question.

“Don’t talk nonsense, the production crew isn’t crazy.”

“You never know! Otherwise, how do you explain how someone from veterinary medicine can answer these questions better than the geography and humanities major? That doesn’t make any normal person’s logic!”

“That’s right! I also feel like something’s wrong!”

“Production crew, come out! We want an explanation!”

Just like that, before the mock exam was over, the netizens started a riot. Amidst this chaos, the mock exam ended, the computer graded the papers, and Rong Ziyan got a perfect score and ranked first. The top student in geography and humanities ranked second with two points less.

“How is this possible?” After getting their results, almost every top student was shocked.

Veterinary medicine! If Rong Ziyan’s major was related to geography, they wouldn’t have doubted their lives.

“No, I think you should give us an explanation?” Some hot-tempered people went directly to the production crew. They seriously suspected that the production crew had leaked the questions to Rong Ziyan.

Especially the top student of humanities and geography, this was his area of expertise, yet he lost to Rong Ziyan!

So, without waiting for the production crew’s explanation, they automatically went to Rong Ziyan’s dorm room.

The PD who was following them hurriedly asked the chief director, “Do we need to stop them? It looks like something is about to happen.”

The chief director gritted his teeth, “Let them go! Treat it as an emergency.”

Because they didn’t understand why Rong Ziyan got a perfect score either, but in this situation, no matter how they explained it, the other contestants and netizens certainly wouldn’t believe them. It was better to let them ask him themselves. Perhaps, not only could it dispel suspicion, but there could also be new discoveries.

So, with the director’s tacit approval, this group of top students opened the door to Rong Ziyan’s room.

The one who opened the door was the PD who was in charge of recording Rong Ziyan’s scenes.

Inside, Rong Ziyan was obviously unprepared. He had not only taken off his white coat, he was also wearing a red and green veterinary department uniform. His hands were still frantically filling out a thick pile of delivery slips. At his feet were the salted duck eggs that were being packaged.

Everyone: …

They seemed to have found the reason why Rong Ziyan was good at geography. After all, as a WeChat merchant with business all over the country, he had “traveled ten thousand miles, better than reading ten thousand books.”

The scene was extremely awkward.

The system hurriedly prompted: “Host, say something! This is live! It was agreed that you would attract fans and your gold coin value would explode!”

Rong Ziyan thought that what the system said made sense, so he said the sentence that students often say after an exam: “The questions were pretty difficult, how many points did you guys get?”